Projects

Cardington Airship Hangar

Refurbishing a Grade II* listed airship hangar built in 1916, with a 50 m high roof.

Scope

Refurbishment of a Grade II* listed airship hangar in Bedford, built in 1916. The floor space is about 20,000 m² and the roof is over 50 m high.

It is a Category A building on English Heritage's Buildings at Risk Register, in the top 6% of important listed buildings in the UK. The works included 45,000 m² of re-cladding and 70,000 m² of re-painting to the structural steelwork.

What made it hard

A listed building on a heritage risk register, with a roof over 50 m high.

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